State Structures in New Nations: The Case of Primary Agricultural Marketing in Africa

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Title:	State Structures in New Nations: The Case of Primary Agricultural Marketing in Africa
Author:	Jones, David B.
Year:	1982
Periodical:	Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:	20
Issue:	4
Period:	December
Pages:	553-569
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Africa
Subjects:	State agricultural marketing Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Politics and Government
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/160338
Abstract:	This article looks at the 'new nations' and 'new states' of sub-Saharan Africa, and argues that the model: the nation creates the state, has been reversed. The state was created first, and the nation had to be built from that foundation. It also examines the impact of the newness of these states on the performance of state-promoted economic structures, talking the particular example of primary agricultural marketing organisations, to see whether these are likely to be inherently (rather than merely contingently) less effective than similar structures in longer-established states. Notes.